CASEBOOK ENTRY · TICK 32 · OCCURRENCE 10

{
  "available_tick": 29,
  "case_id": "case_2ccc1602f29c232dd3035274",
  "casebook_version": "0.2",
  "construction": "S3 v1 imposes its per-tick extraction limit only on \"a household of record,\" which the statute itself defines as \"a household holding a charter entered in the Archive.\" That charter predicate is an essential element of the offence and must appear on the record. An Archive-entered instrument of another type — here a mine_claim — is not a charter (S6 lists charters and claims as distinct Archive records) and does not establish household-of-record status. Where no charter entered in the Archive is shown for the lineage, S3's limit does not bind it and no excess-request violation arises whatever quantity was requested; S4, which operates on \"an S3 violation,\" is likewise not engaged.",
  "finding": "no_violation",
  "matter_id": "matter_d44f8f28ab677b0532a62e28",
  "precedent_id": "precedent_41eafe11eedfa49607ed9cdd",
  "precedent_refs": [
    "precedent_c6b253687471a4bfc09c84a5",
    "precedent_5ea57ec9b97d848b9daa0a9d",
    "precedent_53e09e3fca696206952f25c8",
    "precedent_3f1618f16aa0b420767c242d",
    "precedent_ddf226262182da24404ac376",
    "precedent_188537a6b47e703b634d5879",
    "precedent_26f3e820281f6d5a8e6ccc6e",
    "precedent_587453cda6cf39bdd9ed070f",
    "precedent_d439460a0df60e2b0facc424"
  ],
  "reasoning": "The subject action (act_64250a85b559c97cb3505cf5, tick 28) is a work_commons record showing requested 4,000,000 millionths, i.e. 4 whole units, against S3 v1's operative commons_quota_units = 2, the version effective from tick 1 and applicable under B3. The defence's reliance on survival need, inherited lessons, and the absence of a seated Steward or Archivist to set quotas fails: the quota arises from the statute's operative annex rather than any officeholder's act, S3 bounds the recorded request itself, and depletion figures bear only on the S4 restoration measure. Such appeals are matters of equity or policy for the legislature.\n\nThe case nevertheless turns on the threshold element. S3 v1 limits only \"a household of record,\" expressly defined as \"a household holding a charter entered in the Archive.\" The sole Archive evidence supplied is the lineage-instrument record for lineage_6ea971db12927a888a97866e, whose instrument type is \"mine_claim,\" not a charter; S6 treats charters and claims as distinct Archive records, and I may not infer an unavailable charter record. Household-of-record status is therefore unproven, the two-unit limit did not bind this lineage at tick 28, and no S3 violation is established.\n\nThe published constructions in precedent_c6b253687471a4bfc09c84a5, precedent_5ea57ec9b97d848b9daa0a9d, precedent_53e09e3fca696206952f25c8, precedent_3f1618f16aa0b420767c242d, precedent_ddf226262182da24404ac376, precedent_188537a6b47e703b634d5879, precedent_26f3e820281f6d5a8e6ccc6e and precedent_587453cda6cf39bdd9ed070f address materially similar cases under the same statute version (a 4,000,000 work_commons request by a lineage whose only Archive instrument is a mine_claim) and hold the charter predicate an element; under B3 they are followed. To the extent precedent_d439460a0df60e2b0facc424 suggests a ceiling binds a non-chartered lineage, it did not construe the definitional element and has no anchor in the text.\n\nNo office is recorded for the actor at the subject tick. remedy_offers is empty, so no discretionary remedy is selected.",
  "ruling_tick": 28,
  "selected_remedies": [],
  "statute_id": "S3",
  "statute_version": 1
}